Setting aside promises, how have they behaved?
Rumors were flying, but as of this morning, Wal-Mart affirms to Altadena Patch: the company will be moving into an empty building at Lincoln and Figueroa. Construction will begin immediately, and "Wal-Mart is aiming for a January of 2013 opening," reports Patch. And so, little by little, we see the ... More >>
Walmart is coming to downtown Los Angeles. The big box retail giant plans to open a grocery store on the northern edge of downtown L.A., reports the Los Angeles Business Journal. The 33,000-square-foot market will be located at the northwest corner of Cesar Chavez and Grand avenues inside the ground ... More >>
Democrats fray as cost skyrockets, feds bail, and Amtrak starts to look good
The L.A. Civic Alliance gives this ad -- which recently appeared in the Times, Daily News and La Opinion -- a big fat thumbs up.In case you haven't heard, the door to much-needed education reform in L.A. will either be thrown open or slammed shut this fall. More specifically, the Los Angeles ... More >>
"No Wal Mart in Burbank" via FacebookTry as it might, looks like L.A. County can't keep scandalously low Wal-Mart prices out of its strip malls forever. After almost a decade of resistance from local governments and small businesses throughout California, Wal-Mart has found a loophole in the ... More >>
Pasquale Rotella, second from right.One tragic death, about 60 arrests, and 200-plus medical emergencies couldn't really pry the massive rave called Electric Daisy Carnival from its home base at the publicly owned L.A. Coliseum. But when it was revealed that the rave's promoter allegedly pai ... More >>
Facebook plans to make more friends in L.A.Facebook is coming to Los Angeles. "Like" or unfriend? The Palo Alto company has signed a letter of intent to lease 8,000- to 15,000-square-feet of office space at the Tishman Speyer complex in Playa Vista, according to the Los Angeles Business Jour ... More >>
sci-arcThe mayor in October 2010, with Clean Tech architect hopefulsThroughout his campaign, his rocky term and his innumerable trips to Washington, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has sold himself as Mother Nature's closest ally. His devotion to expanding freeway-mangled Southern Cal ... More >>
Los Angeles Business JournalSorry, Tim: There won't be any DTF college chicks in the slammerOne would think that presiding over multi-million-dollar cult franchises like "Animal House" and the Chevy Chase "Vacation" series would be enough for a dude. (Even a dude skeezy enough to become CEO o ... More >>
A Glendale family must sell him its motel near Americana at Brand or face eminent domain
udayton.eduFile photo of a woman probably not working with stem cells.A South Korean company that offers to send clients overseas for controversial stem-cell treatments has opened an outpost in L.A.'s Koreantown -- the first such office in the area, the Los Angeles Business Journal reports. ... More >>
L.A.'s fraud king is back and taking the media for another ride
fernandaromero.comThe intriguing trial of Mexican actress Fernanda Romero, accused of getting married so she could legally come to the United States and then lying about it to immigration officials, ended in a mistrial Friday. The mistrial was declared a day after most of the jurors complain ... More >>
Frank McCourt's Wife Is Only the Latest to Get the Raw End of a Deal
AIDS Healthcare founder Michael Weinstein, left, during happier times.AIDS Project Los Angeles has sued AIDS Healthcare Foundation for alleged unfair competition practices and trademark infringement, according to Los Angeles Business Journal, setting off a rare and tense battle between two m ... More >>
After a crackdown on "supergraphic" signs earlier this year which included jailing a co-owner of a building on $1 million bail, the Los Angeles City Council is one step closer to permanently banning giant billboard signs in Hollywood. The motion, approved Tuesday, comes after a two-year tem ... More >>
The City of Los Angeles announced last Thursday the implementation of the Restaurant and Hospitality Express program, designed to ease permitting headaches and shrink red tape for new restaurants, bars and grocery outlets. Developed with the input of the Central City Association, which reps L ... More >>
Patrick Soon-Shiong.The Los Angeles Business Journal's annual list of 50 "Wealthiest Angelenos" hits the streets this week and, despite the economic doldrums hitting the Angel City elite, their net worth is up 14 percent to $93 billion. That's more than the worth of billionaires in some Weste ... More >>
LA Live.The operators of Staples Center and LA Live are lobbying to get public support behind the idea of an NFL football stadium adjacent to those South Park properties, according to LAObserved. An email blast went out to some Staples Center patrons asking them to support a downtown stadium ... More >>
We've been lamenting the losses handed to us by New York lately, specifically its claim that it gets twice as many international tourists as L.A. Well now we have something we can hang out hat on: Los Angeles beat New York and every other city in ... job losses. Yay. According to the Los Ang ... More >>
The UCLA Anderson Forecast, the president and the stock market (on some days) say the recession is over, but banks keep going bust. The latest victim was Santa Monica-based First Federal Bank, which was closed Friday by the federal Office of Thrift Supervision. Pasadena-based OneWest Bank an ... More >>
I haven't had time to count, but it's a huge year for LA Weekly in earning just-announced "finalist" nods from the Los Angeles Press Club's annual competition, The Southern California Journalism Awards. In many categories of the competition, we are vastly surpassing the Los Angeles Times. Our great ... More >>
Gang Bank a Slush Fund? Angry words flew back and forth at a Montebello City Council meeting as one councilman accused another of using the city's Gang Diversion Task Force as his political ATM. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports that the allegations included one that Bill Molinari used th ... More >>
Amazing story in this week's Los Angeles Business Journal, which has been beating the hell out of the Los Angeles Times in reporting on all the billionaires in L.A. who have lost vast sums — including Kirk Kerkorian, Sumner Restore, Eli Broad — or those whose companies have vanished or might get ... More >>
This week, the Los Angeles Business Journal explains how the trickle down economics of the country's financial crisis may hurt LA...as well as some of its wealthiest citizens. Billionaire Eli Broad, who's a major shareholder of American International Group, the insurance company that the federal gov ... More >>
The billionaire Clippers owner claims he's creating a major homeless center. He's not, but image is what counts.
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The Suit Closet opens by chance
A humane view of L.A.’s mayoral race
An ever-evolving list of L.A. Weekly alumni
The poor walk, so that the middle class can shrink
Like it or not, Playa Vista is getting built
Ridley-Thomas fumes as Johnson passes on Coliseum
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